Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-17
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
The Nan Who Kills q Coed Cow
Testing Her Yield Of MAX
Per Year.
; The Methods Of the Texas Horse Rafser
arc About to Uncergo = Great
ShsnEe In lho Future.

Mr.. WI Rush, sn Indian Territory
stockman, pissed through the city yester-
dsy on his wsy home from the Panhandle
Mr.. G.. e Curran, the Hereford breeder,
returned to his home in Kansas yes 'erdsy
greatly Impressed with the advantages OF
North Texas, which, he says, is the great.
est cattle growing country in the world.
He will return shorty and will bring
with him some OF his fiGe stock for dis
tribution here.
Farmers are beginning to ind cut that
after eli the raising of live stock is the
thing to do in connect with the cult
vation Of the soil. There is but little
money made in the raising of wheat, corn,
rye, oats and barley unless the same lie
fed into stock on the fsrm where 1t Is
raised. The farmer that will do this is
bound TO prosper. He realizes o double
p'odt, il 6uY profit there is, on both his
grain and fattened live stock Tascosa
Pioneer.
Mr.. W. z Mcfarland, a Walker, Mo-,
breeder of fine stock, reached
Fort Worth yesterday with a num-
Der of thoroughbred Herefords which he
hiss quartered at Powell's stables. Mr.
Mcfarland has come to Texas every win
ter for the past TO years, but has here
tofore made his heac quarters at South
Texas points. When asked why he had
changed mis- market, he said that when he
tried to make So in the south he had
always been Threatened with Fort
WORTH" being told how much better
trading could be done here, etc.
IS
A Braz0ris county correspondent of
Farm and Ranch ssys: Dr.. Csrothers
has given his experience in feeding cattle
on cactus and cottonseed meal. have
not tried his plan but have tried the feed
ing Of sweet potatoes and cotton seed.
and am satisfied that it is better than
corn or cactus. l can raise potatoes
and gather them for 10 cents per bush
Ell; have done 1t this year with but one
rain on them. set out potatoes at any
time after the vines are large enough, up
to July 15, IL this coast country and do
not dig until after frost. Am now dig
cling, November 50). can raise on an
aVersge 200 bushels per acre, sometimes
700. And to fatten cattle one busheI OF
potatoes is worth barrel of corn.
what effect the present c)ld rains were
going to have on the range and cattle in
the west, said there would be no bad re-
suit from them. The hard, cold, cutting
winds are what hurt the cattle. As to
the grass, it is peculiar fact. he said,
that while in one fi-ld the grass may
be completely spoiled, on the other
side Of wire fence NAV be
found splendid grazing. Where
the grass has been closely eaten of in the
summer, and has just begun TO spring up
again Ia the fall, little rain will wither
it up, for it is still tender aud susce Jtible
to lnclement weather. Where the range
has net been eroi d, and the grass is q
few inches hign, IS soon as it wi hers and
falls over another crop springs up, pro-
tected by the decaying mass of dead
grass.
"The business OF raising Texas horses
is about to undergo great change in the
near future" said Colonel G.. II. Highly
o. Fort Worth yesterday. "The time is
psst when the raiser can afford to handle
the scrub animals he has up to now found
reasonably profitable. He cannot paw
cash for his pastures and cash for his
hay and other feed, and sell his
growth ct the old 800 scale of prices. It
is true 1t costs no more to raise horse
than it does steer, but the manner OF
marketing the two animals is different
and altogether by the time the
horse is disposed of the profits
are out Of sight. The only
way in which the business can be made
profitable is to breed up and turn out bet
ter animals, and already the raisers are
taking hold Of the matter In good earn
est.
"Have you ever noticed these descrip-
tons of good mich COWS and good beef
o tie, good draft stock and coed every
kind of stock, that seem to be kept con-
til u lily alive by the papersP" enquired a
stockman yesterday.
az have made live stock life study
and could not give description OF
good milk cow, nor of any other variety
of stock, that would hold good in ell
cases; and have never seen anyone else
that could. S me of the best milk
giyers I ever saw do not tslly with
any description ever brought to
nv notice. For instance, 8 small
head on a COW is said 10 indicate q good
mixer .EI admit that 1t may add to the
astrscliyeness of the animal, but it he
little, II anything to do with the yield ct
milk; snd | hsve seen splendid mixers
that have large, ungainly heads. There
is class of men who employ great deel
of time preparing these descriptions OF
the good CO ~ and to secure data they
arc killing many fine animals in order to
see how much milk they will give in a
year; but they overlook the'facs that the
amount Of milk the cow gives is not the
only criterion OF the value of 1t. Ii the
COW is persistent kicker, she Is not val
usble; for what does 1t profit II she
ful n fishes an enormous quantity
of milk if she kick the bucket over as
soon as it is llled2 When farmer is IN
Quest Of @ cow he must take into consld-
Grafton other qualities beside the amount
OF milk she furnishes"
Cattle Shipments.
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